... assistance in providing information regarding the cocoa industry in Vietnam and inthe establishment of solar driers and fermenting boxes at their demonstration farm sites in Ben Tre Province HARVESTING ... darken in colour during drying as the majority of browning reactions will occur during this process DRYING OF COCOA Drying of cocoa is an important step in cocoa processing as some ofthe reactions ... on the percentage of fully brown beans inthe cut test 6: The effect of spreading of beans for two hours, prior to placement in boxes, on fermentation temperatures 7: The effect of spreading of...
... we obtain the existence of a mapping c : G → Y such that the following hold i c is a fixed point of J, that is, c x F x, c η x ∀x ∈ G , 4.13 The mapping c is the unique fixed point of J inthe set ... Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences ofthe United States of America, vol 27, no 4, pp 222–224, 1941 T Aoki, “On the stability ofthe linear transformation in Banach spaces,” Journal ofthe ... also the recent articles of Forti 16, 17 , for supplementary details On the other hand, in 18–25 , a fixed point method was proposed, by showing that many theorems concerning the stability of Cauchy,...
... Comparison of Diagnostic Methodsforthe Detection of Parasites in Fish and disadvantages, depending on the purpose and target of study For parasitological investigation, the classical methods (the ... microscope Stretching of these metacercariae was done by hot formalin for two minutes Then, they were kept in Eppendorf tubes with neutral formalin (4%) Diagnosis of parasitic infections * Diagnosis ... saline pH 7.0) The internal organs were exposed after a vertical incision was made from the anal opening to the Before any dissection, the exterior ofthe fish was observed under the dissecting...
... centralization of proces sing at a dedicated single site bring benefits in robustness ofthe data trail, reduced cost and increased achievable throughput and accuracy of sample handling and picking; for ... substantial effort should be directed into training of staff to agreed and validated operating procedures and in monitoring their performance to ensure quality standards are maintained Cross-validation ... time consuming During the design stage, it is therefore important to consider whether collection of additional samples will have the potential to produce useful data inthe future, either as an...
... from the quantity of water formed during the reaction The fraction ofthe various forms of hydrogen can be determined from the ratios ofthe areas ofthe corresponding peaks The technique, implying ... the difficulty of determining the exact end point of titration and to the presence of traces of moisture Other disadvantages a r e the impossibility of making determinations inthe real working ... The combination ofthe information obtainable from two o r more of them can often be the only way to give a complete picture ofthe surface acid properties ofthe solid under examination 11 DETERMINATION...
... read may span the breakpoint ofthe CNV SR analysis has the advantage of being able to pinpoint the location ofthe breakpoints Assembly-based AS methods, on the other hand, not align the reads to ... one ofthe highest performing method used inthe 1000 Genomes pilot Project, indicating that there is benefit in combining different approaches (Mills et al., 2011) Depth of coverage DOC methods ... that the costs associated with down-handling, storing and analysis ofthe data could be more than the production ofthe data There is still a need forthe development of new statistical/bioinformatics...
... Summary the combination of amino acid spin-systems, (2) thedeterminationof amino acid types for combined spin-systems, (3) the identification of sequential connections between these spin-systems, ... Assignment Using 4D NMR clustering in this thesis The aim of clustering is to accelerate the performance ofthe program In subsequent steps of constructing spin-systems and modifying established spin-systems ... essential in: (1) the structure determinationof proteins, (2) intermolecular interactions, and (3) protein dynamics Firstly, consider thedeterminationof protein structure from NMR data Protein chemical...
... signal inthe flying height retrieval process The phase variation ofthe scanning current is recovered by detecting the envelope ofthe readback signal As the amplitude ofthe scanning current ... range of all the reading process based methods 2.2.2 Scanning Carrier Current Method for In- Situ Flying Height Measurement The scanning carrier current method works under the same principle ofthe ... of In- Situ Diagnosis Methodsforthe Evaluation of Mechanical and Magnetic Performance of Hard Disk Drives ZHU JIN (B.Eng (hons) HUST, P.R.China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FORTHE DEGREE OF MASTER OF...
... forthedeterminationof such compounds in milk The experimental results demonstrate that the procedure is simple to use and effective forthedeterminationof OCPs in milk 28 CHAPTER Determination ... clean up steps are becoming increasingly significant in restraining detection limits of analytical methods[ 2] Inthe last decade or so, there have renewed interests in developing analyte isolation ... first introduced in segmented-flow determination[ 1] It is based on the injection of a liquid sample into a moving, nonsegmented continuous carrier stream of a suitable liquid Then the injected...
... uncertainty ofthe determinations ofthe analyte contents of both the test sample and the blank value The magnitude of both the uncertainties ofthe results forthe test sample and the blank value are influenced ... evaluating and monitoring of blank values, which allow the estimation ofthe mean value ofthe blank value as well as the corresponding standard deviation [ 21] The number of determinations ofthe ... in relation to the determinations ofthe test sample is important with regard to the uncertainty ofthe blankvalue-corrected-result ofthe test sample, which is equal to the combined uncertainty...
... of 95 ml) The A280 to A260 ratio ofthe UV-absorbing peak indicated it was composed mainly of nucleic acid Inthe profile ofthe NaOH-extracted polymer (B), the elution volume (80 ml) of saccharide ... shaking, absorbance at 660 nm (A660) was measured for min, and the relative A660 against the control test was calculated every minute using the following formula: The relative A660 = A660 of flocculating ... Ag-protein stain, the components varied greatly by polymer Several bands demonstrated the same mobility in both stains, suggesting that these bands were complexes of protein and saccharide These included...
... evaluation of lexical association measures, mainly forthe following reasons: the instability of precision values obtained from the rst few percent ofthe data inthe SLs; the lack of signicant ... obtain condence intervals forthe true precision values ofthe bestperforming AM (frequency), given our 10% sample The upper and lower bounds ofthe 95% condence intervals are shown as thin lines ... different from the baseline obtained by random selection In contrast to our expectation stated at the beginning of this section, the performance of and relative to the other AMs is not better for high-frequency...
... spins By linearity ofthe Fourier transform the direct relation between the peak integral and the number of spins ofthe corresponding chemical group holds forthe spectrum of superposed lines ... real, the oscillating imaginary part ofthe sum in general leads to a small imaginary part of Qn The maximum ofthe real part ofthe sum is N times higher than the amplitude ofthe oscillating ... /: (2.47) For n D N=2 the origin is such that QN=2 is dominated by r/ inthe vicinity ofthe right boundary ofthe FOV Still for a rather coarse discretization of N D 32 the corresponding sum is...
... improving the efficiency of troop movement During the 1950s there was a need for an improved understanding of locomotion forthe treatment of World War II veterans The classic work at the University of ... skin The movement ofthe markers is typically used to infer the underlying relative movement between two adjacent segments (e.g knee joint) with the goal of precisely defining the movement ofthe ... optimal weighting ofthe markers according to their degree of deformation Another extension ofthe basic PCT corrects for error induced by segment deformation associated with skin marker movement...
... description ofthe test procedure was lacking, the majority ofthe studies would benefit from improving their reporting ofthe study The chosen study designs were in all cases relevant forthe data ... with the OECD reporting requirements, 22 out of 37 criteria The other three methods have each included less than half ofthe OECD reporting requirements in their list of criteria Some ofthe reporting ... aspects ofthe test method are included in their reports A more structured reporting format could ensure the reliability ofthe test data without limiting the researcher’s creativity inthe design of...
... to enforce the pitch continuity in time For this, the fundamental frequencies of each combination C are mapped into music pitches, obtaining a pitch combination C For instance, the combination ... 141–156] In these figures, the cross point represents the values selected forthe parameters Lines represent the impact tuning individual parameters when keeping the selected values forthe rest of ... by applying some constraints, like a minimum intensity for a pattern One ofthe main contributions of this study is the extension ofthe core algorithm to increase the temporal coherence Instead...
... ) The main steps ofthe APM algorithm are the following: (i) select a starting short time window width Tmin ; (ii) apply the Prony method to the samples inthe short time window to obtain the ... proper window is used The authors selected the Hanning window because of its good spectral characteristics and the simplicity ofthe interpolation formulas A brief review ofthe frequency domain interpolation ... as AEM In this paper, themethods based on the use ofthe DFT inthe IEC framework are summarized Then, themethods based on Prony and ESPRIT theories are reviewed Finally, the results of several...
... conversion In- line distillation methods are used forthe determinations of ammonia, fluoride, cyanide, phenols, and other volatile compounds In- line digestion can be used forthedeterminationof total ... buffer solutions inthe pH range of to The error resulting from inaccurate pH measurements grows with an increase in total alkalinity For example, an inaccuracy of 0.1 inthe pH determination causes ... Analytical methodsforthedeterminationof cyanates in plating wastes Plating 39:381 23 GARDNER, D.C 1956 The colorimetric determinationof cyanates in effluents Plating 43:743 24 Procedures for Analyzing...
... to margin; short spines often present around margin (valve view) 31b Area of prominent radial markings, in valve view, limited to Cyclotella approximately outer half of circle, marginal spines ... Standard Methodsforthe Examination of Water and Wastewater Agency, National Environmental Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio PATRICK, R & C.W REIMER 1975 The Diatoms ofthe United States Exclusive of ... Water Environment Federation Standard Methodsforthe Examination of Water and Wastewater Algae General TAYLOR, W.R 1957 Marine Algae ofthe Northeastern Coast of North America, 2nd ed Univ Michigan...